[redshawk]

I blame that “cult series Star Trek “.
I wonder how much, and whose money paid for this nonsense. Certainly there are more important things to worry about.

[Leaning Right]

> I wonder how much, and whose money paid for this nonsense. <

Maybe we are both being provincial, but I had that same thought. In the old days scientists used to investigate things like the strength of a carbon bond, or the conductivity of of an alloy.

Now many of them just sit around wondering if our universe could be a bubble within some other universe.